Hollow Ridge, Earls Common Road, Stock Green, Redditch, B96 6SZ

Hollow Ridge is a five-bedroom detached house in Stock Green, Redditch, Redditch (B96 6SZ). It has a recorded floor area of 268 m² (around 2885 sq ft), construction records dating it to 1967-1975 and council tax band F. The latest certificate (February 2019) shows an E (score 49), well below the UK norm with real room to improve. The recommended improvements would lift it to C (score 76), a 2-band jump. Main heating runs on oil.

It hasn't traded since April 1997, a hold of 29 years that's notably long for the area. Only one transfer is on record with HM Land Registry, suggesting it has stayed in the same hands for a long time. At 268 m² the property is well over the postcode median (190 m² across 4 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. It lags the bulk of the postcode on energy efficiency (less efficient than 75% of similar EPCs). 5 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 3 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £709,000 sits 357.4% above the 1997 sale of £155,000. 2 planning records sit against the property, 1 approved, 0 refused. Past consents include an extension and a conservatory, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved.